network installation ?

[Jonathan Khoo]

On 4/14/05, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Khoo wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have an IBM Thinkpad x24. The external CD Rom is faulty. The BIOS has
> > no pxe boot and the only other device it can use for bootup is the
> > external floppy diskdrive. Is there anyway I can get to install Ubuntu
> > on the notebook ?
> 
> Do you have an integratred nic?, if so: "If your box doesn't have the
> option to boot from lan (like one of mine) you can make a boot disk that
> will do that part. http://etherboot.sourceforge.net "
> https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LocalNetInstall
> 
> Those 2 links should be all you need.
> 
> Carl Karsten
> 

Thanks Carl, will try it tonight. :-)

-- 
cheers,
jonathan khoo
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